Economists were predicting 200,000 jobs were created last month. Fortunately, they were wrong. The numbers in the March jobs report showed approximately 303,000 positions created and a drop in the unemployment rate to 3.8 percent. It is the 26th straight month where unemployment has been below four percent. Historically, the last time this trend occurred … Read more
Yes, it can happen here. And it might if the Donald ‘I Killed Roe v Wade’ Trump wins in 2024. Recent reporting by both the Washington Post and the New York Times has shown that if the twice impeached, two-time popular vote loser and four-time indicted David Duke endorsed business charlatan Donald ‘I Killed Roe … Read more
Movie buffs and political historians recognize the title of the 1915 DW Griffith film The Birth of a Nation. Originally titled the Clansman, the film, while an acknowledged triumph in filmmaking, wrongly stereotyped black people as ignorant, manipulative, and predators of white women. It also falsely glorified the racist Ku Klux Klan as a force … Read more
Today (April 14, 2021,) President Joe Biden, the fourth American Chief Executive presiding over Military Involvement in Afghanistan, announced that he would not pass on that responsibility to a fifth American leader and said he would start the withdrawal of the remaining United States troops from that nation on May 1, 2021. The President cited … Read more
Over the weekend, the Republicans that dared to go on the mainstream weekend television news shows (Meet the Press, This Week with George Stephanopoulos, and CNN’s State of the Union) unsurprisingly and on cue all bellyached about the Biden/Harris American Jobs Plan. Among their protests were: Most of the bill has nothing to do with … Read more